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When the report was accepted and the college began negotiations to buy frat houses this fall, 77 per cent of fraternity members signed a protest petition...
...houses, according to Richard Berger--Record exchange editor--recently attempted a protest rally in front of the college president's home. Although it allegedly included "gotchas" from windows in nearby frat houses, Berger considered it "really a failure...
...money. It is paid to him simply to keep him from working for any other network. He called the $100,000 "peanuts." but he took it anyway. It represented another concession from what he calls "the hierarchy"-a general term he often uses to indicate all the "frat-pin boys," the college men with diplomas who make the ultimate rules by which he has to live. "All the buildings on Madison Avenue are conning towers," he says, and "any television executive must have one very important attribute: cologne...
...hand of the administration reaches even into the traditional hangout of freedom, the fraternity. Dean Peters last year introduced the novel idea of having a resident adviser in the various frat houses. "Ten fraternities have done this voluntarily; with the great improvement this practice has brought about, we hope it will grow and expand," Peters says. Still, for all its committees and representatives, the Dean's office likes to posture itself as a benevolent despot. Peters explains, "There is a certain number of necessary rules. We try to interfere as little as possible with student affairs...
...long as initiations remain, all the fun of joining a Yale fraternity has not vanished. The initiation ceremonies are generally divided into two evenings, the "informals," and the "formals." Whereas these rituals vary from frat to frat, or rather from fraternity to fraternity (the word "frat" is considered at New Haven to have an unfortunate midwestern flavor), a pledge who enjoyed the following informal would not feel especially distinguished...